Muni eliminating stops on one of its worst performing bus routes

UPDATE 10/19: The 28L-19th Avenue was not the only Muni line getting service improvements this week. Muni officials announced that the J-Church line will run every nine minutes during peak times. The N-Judah will begin running again to AT&T Park and the Caltrains station on weekends. The F-Market line will run every five minutes instead of 10 minutes and will also get seven new rehabilitated historic vehicles at the end of month.

Plans to improve one of the Muni’s worst performing bus lines will finally take affect on Monday.

Officials are also working on redistributing the running time on the regular 28-19th Avenue bus line to compensate for the time spent in traffic.

John Haley, director of transit operations, has been highlighting problematic Muni bus lines at the agency’s policy and governance meeting. Both the 28-19th Avenue and 28-19th Avenue were discussed at last month’s meeting. On Friday, officials will highlight the 29-Sunset.

Comments

If you want to speed up the 28 get it off 19th - any idiot who's ever tried go from SF State north to the Bridge knows that you avoid the moving parking lot - any combination of 18th and 20th, even if it means crossing 19th several times, would work. Once made the mistake of merging onto 19th from 280: took ten minutes to get to Stonestown and another 45 to get to Judah and this was at Midnight!! Actually, it was around 3 in the afternoon but the point is: avoid 19th whenever you can whatever the time.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 15:51.

Muni riders pack a 28-19th Avenue bus. Muni officials have announced stop eliminations for the 28L-19th Avenue and scheduling changes for the 28-19th Avenue bus. Photo by Jerold Chinn / SF Public Press.

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